Manhandled at Cultural Center
Manhandled
World Premiere of brand-new digital restoration!
MANHANDLED (1949) 96 min. Paramount. D: Lewis S. Foster. Dorothy Lamour enjoyed a brief hiatus from the Road pictures with Bing and Bob to star in her only film noir. Lamour is a psychiatrist’s secretary who records an account of an unemployed writer (Alan Napier) confessing to the shrink (Harold Vermelyea) about recurrent nightmares of bludgeoning his wealthy wife to death. When the wife turns up dead, both the suspects and plot twists featuring a nefarious private detective (Dan Duryea) quickly stack up as the cops (a rumpled Sterling Hayden and wiseacre Art Smith) investigate. Based on the 1945 novel The Man Who Stole a Dream by L. S. Goldsmith and co-written by director Lewis Foster (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Crash out) this entertaining picture flopped at the box office, but remains extremely worthy.
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MANHANDLED (1949) 96 min. Paramount. D: Lewis S. Foster. Dorothy Lamour enjoyed a brief hiatus from the Road pictures with Bing and Bob to star in her only film noir. Lamour is a psychiatrist’s secretary who records an account of an unemployed writer (Alan Napier) confessing to the shrink (Harold Vermelyea) about recurrent nightmares of bludgeoning his wealthy wife to death. When the wife turns up dead, both the suspects and plot twists featuring a nefarious private detective (Dan Duryea) quickly stack up as the cops (a rumpled Sterling Hayden and wiseacre Art Smith) investigate. Based on the 1945 novel The Man Who Stole a Dream by L. S. Goldsmith and co-written by director Lewis Foster (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Crash out) this entertaining picture flopped at the box office, but remains extremely worthy.
World Premiere of brand-new digital restoration!
MANHANDLED (1949) 96 min. Paramount. D: Lewis S. Foster. Dorothy Lamour enjoyed a brief hiatus from the Road pictures with Bing and Bob to star in her only film noir. Lamour is a psychiatrist’s secretary who records an account of an unemployed writer (Alan Napier) confessing to the shrink (Harold Vermelyea) about recurrent nightmares of bludgeoning his wealthy wife to death. When the wife turns up dead, both the suspects and plot twists featuring a nefarious private detective (Dan Duryea) quickly stack up as the cops (a rumpled Sterling Hayden and wiseacre Art Smith) investigate. Based on the 1945 novel The Man Who Stole a Dream by L. S. Goldsmith and co-written by director Lewis Foster (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Crash out) this entertaining picture flopped at the box office, but remains extremely worthy.
MANHANDLED (1949) 96 min. Paramount. D: Lewis S. Foster. Dorothy Lamour enjoyed a brief hiatus from the Road pictures with Bing and Bob to star in her only film noir. Lamour is a psychiatrist’s secretary who records an account of an unemployed writer (Alan Napier) confessing to the shrink (Harold Vermelyea) about recurrent nightmares of bludgeoning his wealthy wife to death. When the wife turns up dead, both the suspects and plot twists featuring a nefarious private detective (Dan Duryea) quickly stack up as the cops (a rumpled Sterling Hayden and wiseacre Art Smith) investigate. Based on the 1945 novel The Man Who Stole a Dream by L. S. Goldsmith and co-written by director Lewis Foster (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Crash out) this entertaining picture flopped at the box office, but remains extremely worthy.
Manhandled
World Premiere of brand-new digital restoration!
MANHANDLED (1949) 96 min. Paramount. D: Lewis S. Foster. Dorothy Lamour enjoyed a brief hiatus from the Road pictures with Bing and Bob to star in her only film noir. Lamour is a psychiatrist’s secretary who records an account of an unemployed writer (Alan Napier) confessing to the shrink (Harold Vermelyea) about recurrent nightmares of bludgeoning his wealthy wife to death. When the wife turns up dead, both the suspects and plot twists featuring a nefarious private detective (Dan Duryea) quickly stack up as the cops (a rumpled Sterling Hayden and wiseacre Art Smith) investigate. Based on the 1945 novel The Man Who Stole a Dream by L. S. Goldsmith and co-written by director Lewis Foster (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Crash out) this entertaining picture flopped at the box office, but remains extremely worthy.
